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New Form of Diabetes Recognised as Type 5 by Global Health Experts

Michael Gwarisa

The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) has officially designated malnutrition-related diabetes as “type 5 diabetes”, marking a significant step in addressing a long-overlooked health condition. The decision was made on 8 April 2025 during the IDF’s World Diabetes Congress in Bangkok, Thailand. This recognition aims to raise awareness of a disease that disproportionately affects young people in

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Coping with diabetes, hypertension, a day at a time……complexity of lifelong medication

Michael Gwarisa

“Personally, I have been finding it difficult to manage the prescriptions and I have resorted to skipping doses, so that I manage to survive on the little I get to buy the meds. I am sometimes lucky to get handouts to buy insulin from well wishers,” a heartbreaking insight into the life of a diabetic.

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Health Ministry Dismisses Viral Video Of Woman Claiming She Reacted To Vaccine

Michael Gwarisa

THE Bulawayo Metropolitan Provincial Medical Director (PMD),  Dr Maphios Siamuchembu has poured water on a video currently making rounds on social media of a 27 year old woman, Cleopatra Ncube from Cowdry Park in Bulawayo who claims to have developed an adverse reaction that led to her fingers and lower limbs drying up soon after

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Diabetic People Should Get Vaccinated Says Experts

Michael Gwarisa

DIABETES specialist and Health and Child Care Deputy Minister, Dr John Mangwiro has urged people with the diabetic condition to embrace vaccination so as to prevent COVID-19 infection as well as avoid critical illness and even death. By Patricia Mashiri His call comes as a response to growing concerns by people with diabetes and other

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Maisha Health In Diabetes Awareness Campaign

Michael Gwarisa

MAISHA Health is offering free blood glucose measurements at selected sites across the country as part of World Diabetes Month commemorations. The Cassava Smartech Zimbabwe health tech unit said the awareness campaign was aimed at detecting early signs of diabetes. HealthTimes Reporter The chronic disease, which affects about 1,4 million people in the country, is

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